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Intrepid dance troupes are performing in non-traditional settings all over town. One of the most ambitious, and thrifty, is The PGK Project, directed by Peter G. Kalivas (pronounced Kah-LEE-vahs). Kalivas’ roving dance series “San Diego Dances” started in a hair salon in Hillcrest, bounced to a rec center in Golden Hill, then a wine bar, and sports center. Kalivas is not orchestrating site-specific works; rather his aim is to grow an audience without having to pay for performance space. The most recent iteration, called “San Diego Dances on Broadway,” drew crowds to the stately Spreckels Theatre lobby. Smooth onyx walls…
In recent years, the San Diego Symphony has chosen most of its guest soloists with the same status conscious eye that upscale shoppers use at Nordstrom and Nieman Marcus. Pianists such as Lang Lang and Garrick Ohlsson (already heard this month) and violinists Joshua Bell and Gil Shaham (we will hear them later in the symphony season) are the Gucci and Yves St. Laurent of the classical music world. Friday’s (Oct. 26) Symphony concert proved a welcome exception to this name brand penchant, featuring the 23-year-old Taiwanese violinist Ray Chen in the Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto. Winning first prize in…
If viewers at Malashock/Raw3 sat any closer, we would be wiping sweat off our faces and asking John Malashock for an ice pack. The stripped-down series is back for its third installment, this time in the company’s studio at Dance Place, with three premieres about taking risks, fighting bullies, and an uncooperative universe, and all of them feature exciting partnering. Malashock’s “Uneasy Surrender,” is the stunner. The wild and wonderful composition for seven dancers has your eyes bouncing all over the place as dancers fight an unwinnable fight with the world. It opens with dancers in a line, whirling as…
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